Jan Richards wrote:
> Yes of course there is a psychological/motivational component to getting
> authors who can see to spend extra time describing their images. But
> this is familiar territory for any software with human users.
Yeah. And most such software doesn't do very well on this ground, to be honest....
> Similarly, describing images for people who can't see them
> is an (emerging) social convention for communication. And tools to
> efficiently support this new convention are certainly possible.
This is a general statement of principle that I think we all agree on. The
question is how we get there, and whether requiring alt attributes in all cases
is the right way to do it.
-Boris